{"id":331756,"date":"2010-02-17T15:40:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T20:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=93543"},"modified":"2010-02-17T15:40:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T20:40:37","slug":"akon-looking-forward-to-early-retirement-thanks-to-lady-gaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/331756","title":{"rendered":"Akon Looking Forward To Early Retirement, Thanks To Lady Gaga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akon can retire a few decades earlier, thanks to his gutsy decision to sign fashion risk taker\/pop sensation Lady Gaga. Akon signed the quirky hitmaker to his KonLive label at Interscope Records in 2007 after the 23-year-old was dropped by at least five other imprints. It&#8217;s a move that has set Akon up for life. Gaga&#8217;s Grammy-winning dance anthems &#8212; like &#8220;LoveGame,&#8221; &#8220;Bad Romance,&#8221; and &#8220;Poker Face&#8221; &#8211;have gone on to dominate music charts across the globe.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sODWXsH5hRM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sODWXsH5hRM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akon can retire a few decades earlier, thanks to his gutsy decision to sign fashion risk taker\/pop sensation Lady Gaga. Akon signed the quirky hitmaker to his KonLive label at Interscope Records in 2007 after the 23-year-old was dropped by at least five other imprints. It&#8217;s a move that has set Akon up for life. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}